NethServer Version: 7.6.1810
Upgrade storage, the hardware way: after a little checkup on smartctl of the disk status I decided to change my hard drive (test installation, bare metal, no raid)
I have another “not new” SATA drive for put my dear Scapegoat. But i was not that lucky for clone hard drive.
I know: backup and restore could do the trick better, but a single-drive clone is quite faster and reduce the downtime.
So: what tool should i use for cloning drives? New drive is bigger than old one…
Well, mission accomplished.
Three tools used:
- Clonezilla: after shutdown and connect the new disk, I boot from Clonezilla to clone the existing drive to the empty one
- gParted: i shut down again the server, detached the old drive then booted a live distro with gParted, which allowed extension of XFS partition to fit size of the disk
- Cockpit: from storage manager of cockpit, i was able to extend the size of LVM to fit XFS partition on live use of the server. Unfortunately, xfs do not allow shrinking
As usual, there’s more way to do that.
So… ideas and experiences are welcome.
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